THE SOCIETY’S MISSION AND HISTORIC ROLE. The Anti-Slavery Society, in discharging its historic role for the most wretched and the most oppressed — child slaves, bonded child laborers and child laborers — works for the relief of their suffering, their emancipation or rescue, and their subsequent social reintegration after they have been released or rescued, as well as the suppression of these practices and institutions.



The aims of the Society are:



to relieve suffering of;



to free or rescue; and



the social reintegration of —



slaves, child slaves, bonded laborers, bonded child laborers, hierodulic (ie, temple or sacred) child prostitutes, child laborers and the victims of the international traffic in women and children for the purpose of prostitution, as well as the suppression of these practices and institutions.



Change will not occur overnight. But it will never change until governments and legislatures around the world, responding to world public opinion outraged by the worst abuses of child labor, shoulder their responsibilities for these children by taking action to suppress slavery in all its insidious forms.